When Toledo had it's poisonous algal bloom last summer, we heard it was farm phosphates and manure run off which was feeding the algea. Fertilizer stuff ran down the Maumee River. [1]...and into Lake Erie and my glass of drinking water.
Question: How much manure and phosphate comes down the Cuyahoga River?
Must be alot because the algal bloom in Lake Erie off of the City of Cleveland is pretty intense in the NOAA image above.
Then again, maybe the manure and the phosphates are from the NEOSD discharge right off Edgewater Park.
Does anyone really want to know?
Could the green plumes in the image pin point the source?
Anyway, dilution is the solution to polution!
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Links:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maumee_River
[2] http://66.228.45.157/system/files/sewerage_in_our_drinking_water_is_us.JPG
[3] http://66.228.45.157/system/files/Cuyahoga_River_map.JPG